Emerson instructed us to “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”

Following Emerson’s guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. You can search by topic or by teacher or you can just hit refresh and keep getting 5 new random quotes below:-

• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around laws.

  ~ Plato quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Plato, Act, Good, Bad, Will, People

• A lack of money is never, ever, ever a problem. A lack of money is merely a symptom of what is going on underneath.

  ~ T. Harv Eker quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

  Famous Quotes on: Secret, Mind, Problem, Money

• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

  ~ George Bernard Shaw quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: George Bernard Shaw, World, Circumstance, Believe, People

• The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.

  ~ Stephen Covey quotes from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People; p. 106

  Famous Quotes on: Focus, Habit, Character, Stephen Covey, Persona, Act, The Seven Habits of Highly Effctive People, Mission, Mind, Achievement, Doing, Achieve, Principles, Values

• There is no remedy for love but to love more.

  ~ Thoreau quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Thoreau

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